Preventive



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. PIGKETT, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN TREATING PAPER OR OTHER FABRIC WITH TOBACCO FOR USE AS A MOTH- PREVENTIVE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 203,766, dated May 14, 1878; application filed April 27, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHNMH. PIOKETT, of Baltimore, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Moth-Preventives,

and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to means for keeping moths and other like insects away from carpets, furs, and woolen fabrics; and it consists in the novel preparation and treatment of paper and cotton or linen textile fabrics, as hereinafter described, by which preparation and treatment I have produced a new article of manufacture for public use.

The following is a description of my mode of producing the new article: I first take tobacco and grind it by any suitable means until it is comparatively well pulverized. I then pass the ground tobacco through a sieve. The fine particles pass through the meshes of the sieve-cloth, while the coarse remain within the sieve-body. These fine particles or flour of tobacco are then transformed into pulp by a proper admixture of water, and the coarse particles are converted into a pasty substance by similar means. I next take paper of proper thickness and coat it thoroughly withthe tobacco-pulp 011 both sides, and then treat it to an outer coating of the tobacco-paste.

The article thus produced becomes lining for carpets, bureau-drawers, chests, and wardrobes, and it is also adapted for folding within What I claim as new, and desire to secure,

by Letters Patent, is-- The new article of manufacture described, consisting of a body of paper or cloth treated in ground tobacco, substantially as and for thevpurposes specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two Witnesses.

J. H. PIOKETT.

Witnesses:

JOHN F. BLACKMAR, EUGENE W. J oHNsoN. 

